I suppose my Windows experience was a little different than Steve's, I actually liked Windows 98 second edition better than Windows 95 as long as I turned off all...

First, I have two internal drives, with my DATA directory backed up to the second.  Then I have a NAS device also with two 1TB internal drives that I...

Another simple tip to make sure you don't lose stuff. Get yourself a Office 365 subscription which not only gives you the latest version of Office at all...

Another simple tip to make sure you don't lose stuff. Get yourself a Office 365 subscription which not only gives you the latest version of Office at all times but...

So would you rather have a Windows update install and fail to work because of missing drivers?

Or would you rather MS block it?

I'd think most people would opt for the...

I agree that hardware is at the stage now where for routine tasks office, email, web stuff then a machine can easily last until it drops. However I completely disagree...

"..The problem is that at some point a state based deployment process won't work. It's actually impossible for a state based approach to work in all situations. Simple actions,...

What we do is:

• We have separate script files for all DB objects (stored procedures, views, UDFs)
• We have an upgrade template script
• For each task that has DB schema...

Yep I agree with dsor.

If you render out your UTC date/time into a web page you can have some JS look at the users timezone and update the date/times accordingly....

If you need to log time in different time zones then why not simply store the timestamps in UTC format?

Then you can build the display logic to convert to the...

I'd absolutely love to upgrade to SQL Server 2016 or higher, but MS decided to screw us over by making Reporting Services be a single instance install per server, WTF?!

We...

I wonder if WinDock came up with this to avoid MS disastrous decision to make SSRS single instance per machine only as of SQL Server 2016 and above?
Also wonder...

The bit about tech employees having to prove they requested resources etc... when the shit hits the fan, hmmmm, I wonder how that will go.